Shashi Tharoor: Nehru: A BiographyAs a young Indian child growing up in America, I heard stories about India's independence movement from my parents. I was told about Jawaharlal Nehru, the first prime minister of India. I had trouble believing that a single individual could have so much impact on the world. After reading, Shashi Tharoor's book, I've changed my mind.
Tharoor's analysis of the intertwining between an individual's biography and the birth of a nation is masterful. The book stays close to its subject, Nehru, but then ventures to link his biography to many of the Indian institutions we now take for granted, including: secularism, democracy, non-alignment, and the country's prowess in science and math. This is a highly readable book and I strongly recommend it to any reader interested in learning about India, its culture, and its first leader.

Mary Douglas: How Institutions ThinkThis book will re-wire your mind. If you ever believed that what we take for reality is mostly a projected societal consensus rather than objective fact, read this book. In addition to being a first-class theorist who can identify critical mechanisms for the social construction of reality, she is fantastic writer. I couldn't sleep for days after reading this book.

December 21, 2007

Harold Leavitt

The great social psychologist Harold Leavitt has died. It is a great loss for his family and for social science. Hal was one of the most insightful scholars in organizational behavior. As as social psychologist, he was a central figure in two important areas in organizational behavior: decision theory and human relations. He contributed to both arenas as a faculty member at Carnegie's GSIA during the 1950s and as a member of MIT's behavioral science group during its heyday in the era of human relations.

Later, as a professor at Stanford's GSB, Hal's writings contributed significantly to my own thinking about business education.

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